Automatic detection of pulmonary embolism in CTA images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1223-1230

  Bouma, Henri ^a,b   Sonnemans, Jeroen J ^a   Vilanova, Anna ^a   Gerritsen, Frans A ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Computed aided detection; Pulmonary embolism (PE)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); COMPUTED-AIDED DETECTION; CONTRAST-ENHANCED CT; CT DATA; DATA SETS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALSE DETECTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE; FEATURE COMPUTATION; NEW SYSTEM; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY EMBOLISM (PE); SHAPE AND SIZE; TREE CLASSIFIERS; VASCULAR TREES; VESSEL BOUNDARIES;

BLOOD VESSELS; CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY VEIN; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY VEINS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 68249088951     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2013618     Document Type: Article

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